Word: purlieus
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...Rehnquist did inhabit some traditional purlieus of American conservatism-he believed, for instance, that those pursuing civil rights, abortion rights and gay rights were trampling constitutional principles of limited government to enforce their will. Rehnquist also believed, with evangelical passion, that the postwar federal government had assumed judicial and regulatory powers that the Constitution assigns to the states. Proponents of states' rights, who had felt so marginalized at the court in the 1960s and '70s, exulted at Rehnquist's devolution of power. One measure of Rehnquist's influence is that he helped refine the contemporary notion of a conservative...
GOLD IN THE PURLIEUS...
...most durable form of English hostility came not from the Royal Academy, whose fogies died off, but from the enlightened purlieus of Bloomsbury, where the critic Roger Fry, who had organized the first postimpressionist show at the Grafton Galleries in 1910, and his truculent fugleman Clive Bell, inventor of the catch-phrase "significant form," made it just fine to despise new English art in the name of the French avant-garde. Given their belief in an imperial France whose seigneurs were Cezanne, Matisse and Gaugin, Fry and Bell preferred any imitation of the Ecole de Paris, however pallid, to anything...
...patronage, not untinged with envy: "I don't agree with everything he writes, but in this particular case the guy's really get something." Mr. Hammarskjold, Mr. Eisenhower. Mr. Dulles, and Mr. Yovicsin receive their salaries in the same kind of coin. We all criticize them (from the safe purlieus of the Hayes-Bick) and preach of what we would de in their brain-puzzling jobs. But they are the men with guts enough to try. If they succeed in then chosen work they become heroes; if they fan they are forgotten overnight. But at least they have done their...
...people from the People's Republic are all dedicated revolutionaries, but they are also well-born intellectuals, educated elitists who have traveled widely and are no strangers to the purlieus of diplomacy. All speak English. The head of the delegation, tall, lean, youthful-looking Deputy Foreign Minister Chiao Kuan-hua, 57, can switch when necessary to French or Japanese or Russian or German, the last of which he acquired (along with a Ph.D. in philosophy) at Tübingen University in the 1930s...